shaken - Story 131033 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived with the subject line: "Your Life's Story". Emily scrolled through the attached PDF, her breath catching in her throat with each new paragraph. It described her first heartbreak, the time she'd almost lost her job, her deepest fears—all presented with a clinical, detached precision.

Her hands began to tremble. She closed the laptop, the screen reflecting her wide, disbelieving eyes. She paced her apartment, her steps quick and erratic, the floorboards groaning beneath her feet.

She needed air. She threw open the window, gulping in deep, desperate breaths. This was an invasion. This was a violation.

Emotion: shaken

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -2.72 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.86

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion shaken. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 shaken stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the shaken emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the shaken vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.351
`unable`	0.269
`focus`	0.266
`😞`	0.258
`다시`	0.257

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.769
`la`	-0.579
`a`	-0.375
`happy`	-0.292
`"`	-0.290